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  • Counting My People, by Dr. Helen Davey

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-davey/counting-my-people-an-aut_b_354491.html
    Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on November 13, 2009

  • Friendship and Mourning

    Jacques Derrida wrote: ''Philia [friendship] begins with the possibility of survival. Surviving--that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.'' In other words, every friendship is structured from the beginning by the possibility that one friend will die first and the surviving friend will be left to mourn. Death ...
    Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on October 2, 2009

  • Emily Running

    EMILY RUNNING My favorite time of day is walking Emily to school in the morning. We kiss as we leave our driveway so other kids won't see us. If I'm lucky, we have a second kiss, furtively, at the school-yard's edge. My insides beam as she turns from me and runs to the building where her class is held, blonde hair flowing, backpack ...
    Posted to Grieving by Robert D. Stolorow on August 1, 2009